9 Tips to Stop Impulse Shopping & Save Money
By Ma Udaysree & Leo Babauta Do you have a problem with impulse spending? If so, the first step to controlling it is monitoring your urges. Make it a goal to monitor and track your spending urges over the next week or two. Keep a small notebook handy, and every time you get an urge […]
How to get your credit score up, and how not to care
By Ma Udaysree & Leo Babauta In this article I completely agree with Leo. Updating your credit score for who? The banks to get you further into debt. I personally never had much on my credit report and when I came back from my India trip in 2017 I checked on my credit score. Low […]
How I Ended My Love Affair With the Credit Card (and Why I Use Cash)
By Ma Udaysree and Leo Babauta In the below article by Leo you will find out how he ended his credit card addiction. In my own life I had a credit card until about 2005 I think. I don’t even remember. The bank closed the particular program I had signed up to to receive the […]
20 Money Hacks: Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Finances
By Ma Udaysree and Leo Babauta “Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” – Woody Allen 20 Money Hacks: Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Finances — ways to trick yourself, to get around obstacles, to boost your accounts, without it hurting. Improving your finances improves your happiness, in general, so I thought […]
Your Brain Has Been Hijacked By Sugar
Are you a sugar addict or think you might be? The first thing you should know is it’s not your fault. Your brain is hardwired to crave sweet foods. Your body runs on sugar — glucose to be precise. Glucose fuels the cells that make up your body — including brain cells (neurons). Way back […]
Siddhasi Art: For Reflection and Transformation
My creations are essentially spiritual in nature and influenced by Vedic philosophy. They serve not only to beautify your home but are reflective and may support your transformation. The above two Lotus Paintings are a co-production with Linda C. The gallery-wrapped paintings are in acrylic with the flower section in oil. All my other paintings […]
Yoga and Swami Shivananda of Rishikesh
Swami Shivananda of Rishikesh was a doctor by profession but eventually became a swami to settle in Rishikesh. Rishikesh is the main yoga town/center in Northern India. Every year thousands of yogis and wonna-be yogis from around the world come to Rishikesh to study yoga like with the Divine Life Society whose founding father is […]
Purpose of Life: The Path without Goals
A quick research for the term ‘purpose of life’ on Google revealed more than 8,580 million search results. A huge number of people are looking for their purpose in life and a huge number of advisers are available to help with this important question more and more people tend to ask themselves. I am one […]
Amazing Grace: Darshan by Enlightened Beings
It truly is amazing grace to have the darshan of an enlightened being. I just watched a short video of Mother Meera traveling from venue to venue and more venues in Germany. Seeing her travel from place to place I reflected. I thought, we are so blessed to have these enlightened beings live, sometimes under […]
Your life can’t change if you don’t change
Your life can’t change if you don’t change. We have to break the cycle of repetitive thoughts and actions, change our inside, in order to see a different result at the outside. If we think the same old unproductive and negative thoughts, how can there be change at the outside? We attract what we continuously […]